Brockton High School’s auditorium was a busy place last weekend as schools from all over the state competed in the semi-finals of the Massachusetts Educational Theater Guild’s annual drama festival.

The semi-final round featured those that had already advanced through the preliminary round on March 5. The 14 winners will go on to the compete in the finals at the Back Bay Events Center in Boston from March 22-24.

Although Braintree, Marshfield and Duxbury did not advance to the finals, their performances Saturday morning were well-received. Braintree High School’s adaptation of Hans Christian Andersen’s well known story “The Little Match Girl” saw the actors turning into human shadow puppets, dancing and miming to a melancholy fairy tale set to music. Duxbury High School’s performance of Deborah Brevoort’s “The Women of Lockerbie” offered the audience a profound study of loss, grief and acceptance through a fictional story based on the real events of the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 in 1988.

Marshfield High School, which competed at B.M.C. Durfee High School in Fall River, did an original comedy written by Marshfield students called “The Complete Works of Harry Potter Abridged.” They summarized all seven books in 40 minutes.

Other South Shore schools that competed at sites around the state included Weymouth High School, Hingham High School, Sharon High School and Milton High School. None of these towns advanced to the finals.